The Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP) was founded in 2003 as a nonprofit organization. Based in Minneapolis, a city with a vibrant tradition for support to the arts, FEP has achieved substantial results in its first decade, with its shows travelling to 35 countries on 4 continents, and catalogues produced in many different language editions.
Projects recently produced include the first major thematic show independently curated from the Condé Nast Archive, “Coming into Fashion”; an Edward Steichen retrospective, co-produced with the Musée de l’Elysée ; an Arnold Newman retrospective, co-produced with the Harry Ransom Center; and a Lorna Simpson exhibition co-produced with the Jeu de Paume. Projects in development include a major survey on Polaroid with the MIT Museum.
FEP has always valued collaboration with institutions and individuals, and has worked with curators, historians, critics and educators in the pursuance of its goals. Among the distinguished experts who have contributed to FEP’s projects are William A. Ewing (former director, Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne), Joan Simon (curator-at-large, Whitney Museum); A. D. Coleman (historian, critic and curator); Patterson Sims (former assistant director MoMA); Tobia Bezzola (director,Folkwang Museum, Essen); Carol Squiers (curator, International Center of Photography, New York); Katie Homans (graphic designer); Olivier Lugon (professor, University of Lausanne).
Among the institutions we have worked with closely are the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne; the Jeu de Paume, Paris; the Kunsthaus, Zurich; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Mass.; the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Florida; the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; Haus der Kunst, Munich ; the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.
Among the publishing house we have worked with: Thames & Hudson, London; Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern; Skira, Italy; W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, and Prestel, New York.
Todd Brandow is the founding Executive Director of FEP. He has been based in Paris since 1997, working during that time as a photography curator, foundation director and book publisher.
